Millions of people watch TikToks of the Western Washington ice storm.
People walking their dogs on their hands and knees and people sliding down inclines are shown in videos.
There is a risk of flooding in the city.
The ice was on the streets on Thursday and Friday. There are different vantage points of the same intersection where parked cars slid down a street and smashed into one another. People are walking their dog by crawling on their hands and knees.
crampons are used to traverse the city Others, like the subject of this December 24 TikTok, crawled on their hands and knees, slowly passing what looks like a multiple-car accident that includes a mail truck, armed with what looks like makeshift ice axes.
I think it's funny. One viewer said that a man would have to stop for the night and make for the summit at dawn.
Since 1996, the bus service in the metro area has stopped completely. The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport closed all of its runways. The Washington State Patrol responded to more than 200 crashes in 24 hours.
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A look at the #seattleicestorm, which has 99.4 million views, shows many videos of vehicles sliding down roads or onlookers catching the moment a neighbor glides down a hill. According to the Seattle Times, 70 ice-related injuries were reported by the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Users have uploaded videos of people sliding down lengthy driveway or neighborhood roads on tubes, the moment they used a spatula to remove thick plates of ice from their car, and an alarming instance of an out-of-control car almost hitting pedestrians.
A December 24 video of a person on their back sliding down a residential hill was captioned "This guy had to catch an Uber that couldn't come up the hill"
Another person said they saw a video of him at the bottom of the hill.
Camera-equipped alarms showed people sliding down the road when the views from apartment windows failed.
On Christmas Eve, warmer weather helped to melt some of the ice, but officials are concerned about the risk of flooding in Western Washington.
There have been 50 deaths across the US, including 28 in Western New York, and thousands of travelers stranded during the holiday rush.
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